DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

Net zero” is equally stamped all over international, EU and national climate policies. What it really means is that while some greenhouse gas emissions will be cut, fossil fuels will continue to be burnt but will be ‘balanced’ or ‘offset’ with an ‘equivalent’ amount of so-called ‘carbon removal’. Burn Now, Pay Later’.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

A fair policy strategy to shift away from gas boilers without heaping costs onto householders can win the public’s support - but it is needed fast, writes Green Alliance's Joe Tetlow. The government is right. That punctured political football remains in the long grass and we can't afford the same fate for low carbon homes.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

The government has presented further details of its plan for scaling up direct air capture, CCUS, and BECCS technologies in the coming decade. The estimates come in the government's response to a host of recommendations from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) last year on the role for carbon removals in the net zero transition.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

While Canada’s federal government is interested in helping Canadians transition off oil and gas for home heating — and is incentivizing the installation of heat pumps — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has repeatedly warned against them. Roughly one-third of residents in Canada’s Atlantic provinces heat their homes with home heating oil.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I think there’s an increasing recognition that policy measures and action targeted at production itself is going to be needed to get the kind of decline rates that we’re thinking about here,” said Steve Pye, one of the study’s authors, during a press call on Tuesday. degrees C above preindustrial temperatures. “If

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions. is at something of a clean-energy policy crossroads.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

Engineered carbon removal technologies such as CCUS, DAC, and BECCS are increasingly seen as crucial to the net zero transition, but spreading the costs fairly remains a challenge. among policymakers and net zero advocates alike.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

An increasingly large majority of people the world over want to see their governments taking decisive action. But support for specific policies is somewhat of a different story. Another aspect of that future is limiting carbon-intensive forms of travel. where long-distance travel is heavily restricted.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

For many observers the only thing worse than the publication of the government's Food Strategy was the puns it unleashed. For farming and environmental groups alike the frustration with the long-awaited strategy was palpable. However, the wider focus on agricultural innovation is not without its merits.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

He argued oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services but is more akin to political lobbying. This is political advertising that they're running to maintain their influence over public policy," he suggested. For example, last year 20 U.K. Pull Quote.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The news comes as the government begins issuing a new round of drilling licences, in a move slammed by climate campaigners. Mark Fullbrook, who ran Truss’s leadership campaign, launched a political consultancy – Fullbrook Strategies – in March , with clients including Cerulean Winds, official records show. .”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest to California. CCS proponents are touting their support of local community involvement in developing these sites.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Legislation aimed at "closing the gaps" in the UK's Climate Change Act by including the nation's international aviation, shipping and supply chains in greenhouse gas reduction targets is set to be tabled in Parliament today, pulling in support from MPs across much of the political spectrum.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6 The five trends revealed by the research are: 1. Forest megadisturbances.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

As fresh reports emerged suggesting that a major building retrofit programme could provide one of the centrepieces for the government's imminent economic stimulus package, three major new reports have been published this week further strengthening the case for an explicitly green recovery.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

New report from PwC models a tiered carbon pricing framework proposed by the IMF earlier this year and finds it would broadly pay for itself, while slashing carbon emissions. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Our new paper , published in Nature, revealed just how tight the world’s remaining carbon budget is likely to be. That’s because we based our estimates on a carbon budget compatible with just a 50% probability of limiting warming to 1.5C. Our analysis showed that total fossil fuel production is limited by a global carbon budget.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As green groups slam the government's 'attack on nature', the opposition is this week seeking to make bolder climate action central to its offer to the country. Labour's new green energy policy is a case in point. A central mission of my government will be to turn the UK into a clean energy superpower.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Argentina’s risky gamble on fracking has led to massive environmental and public health costs , and despite years of government support , the industry remains on shaky financial ground. But the Argentine government has wagered heavily on replicating a North American-style fracking boom, often with U.S. and Canadian phenomenon.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Fresh analysis backed by 40 major energy, finance, and industry companies - including Shell, BP, Volvo, and ArcelorMittal - explores actions required this decade to deliver an emissions-free economy by mid-century that is not overly reliant on carbon offsets.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

On climate, the Inevitable Policy Response is next, warn PRI CEO Fiona Reynolds and Climate Works Foundation director Ilmi Granoff. Ultimately the Covid-19 crisis shows us that investors, companies, and governments need to do more to anticipate tail and mega risks and create actionable strategies to prepare for them.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

As COP26 host, the UK has an enviable track record on decarbonisation and world-leading carbon, wind, and EV goals – so why then are other policy interventions continuing to push in the opposite direction? One could be forgiven for feeling somewhat confused over the government's green priorities.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To grasp the opportunities of net zero and deliver a successful climate change summit in Glasgow, the government must come forward with ambitious policies in 2020, argues the REA's Nina Skorupska. The government has already stated it is planning on COP26 being the most important climate change event since the Paris Agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars. Putting people at the centre.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

To no one's surprise that was the conclusion of the CCC's latest assessment today , a 1,500-page review, which sets out the stark and inevitable impacts from climate change that the UK is already facing, and does not hold back in criticising the government for its failure to take these threats seriously in its policymaking and public messaging.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, Boston-based Trillium Asset Management is using a selection of environmental, social, and governance factors to identify companies that are in a good position for strong long-term performance. ESG (environment, social, and governance) and sustainability are two popular terms that are floated around the corporate sphere.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) has launched FPS + Nature – a new nature and climate scenario to help investors understand how nature and climate policies could shape future markets. Forecast Policy Scenario to create a "realistic assessment to help investors respond to the climate and nature emergency".

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Almost half of all global coal plants are already set to run at a loss in 2020, warns think tank Carbon Tracker. Building new coal and propping up the existing fleet with stimulus money would be throwing good money after bad," said study co-author Matt Gray, Carbon Tracker's co-head of power and utilities.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The global gas supply shortage has driven a more than 500 per cent surge in prices this year, which, coupled with inadequate hedging strategies and the restrictions imposed by the government's energy price cap, has seen a wave of energy suppliers filing for bankruptcy.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That’s why Amazon’s new carbon neutralization paper is a breath of fresh air. Not all carbon credits are created equal , but companies can purchase high-quality, verified forest carbon credits through organizations like Emergent , which develops REDD+ tropical forest carbon credits. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Kathryn Porter’s 2017 blog confusingly quotes without context reports about how climate models warm in response to carbon dioxide.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems. Adhere to the “Good Fish Guide”.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2022

But the nature of the format means they are unlikely to be seriously quizzed on what should be the defining economic and environmental issue faced by their government. The chair of the CCC has likened the UK government's climate resilience strategy as being like 'Dad's Army'. They should be asked about it, at length and in-depth.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

Report sets out the myriad ways ongoing discussions over Brexit climate and energy policy are affecting the UK's chances of meeting climate goals. While the UK now has a carbon price, at £50 per tonne, the UK ETS remains in a temporary format and lacks definition, they warn. Brexit, it turns out, did not "get done".

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. ENGIE hails 'world first' gas from waste breakthrough. Japan considers upping climate target.

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